When did you start cooking?

my grandmother wouldn't let me cook so I learned how to cook when I got married. I just took recipes and followed them. If I had had a choice in the matter I would have loved to cook much earlier.

I was never helping out in the kitchen. I am also a very picky eater. I also do not cook. But if I had to I could slap something together in a hurry. T also is not a cook, although she knows how from watching her mother through the years and her sister. She cooks for me and she is a good cook. But when we can both do without cooking, we take advantage of it.

I guess it was mid or late teens for me. I would have liked to have started earlier now that I look back on it. It was a trial and error thing for sure..lol...I didn't have the female influence in my life and my grandfather was a beans and cornbread kind of guy..lol. I do ok and it's not so hard to follow recipes. After a while they are pretty well memorized. I don't do a lot of cooking now and my b/f was born to cook I think. I tell him all the time he should open a restaurant.

I started learning how to cook, when i got married. I felt that as a wife, i should be able to cook nice foods for my husband . But when we started as husband and wife, i still don't know how to cook. My husband taught me how and from then on, i became a good cook.

I don't know how old I was when I started cooking. It was probably around 6 or 7 little things like pbjs and stuff till old enough to reach all the buttons in the kitchen. I was never forced or anything I wanted to cook but I do live to bake more then cook. With my ow. Boy or girl I'll teach them to make little things so if they are hungry and I'm not around to feed them. It also is good to teach them so basics of food so that when they are out on there own they can deed themselves. It can be every expensive eating out so it's a good way to show tune how to save money with cooking or making food you like.

I started cooking when I went to study away from my family. Until I became 18 I had never cooked, I only remember watching my mum cooking and preparing the dinner. It was very difficult in the beginning because I didn't even know how to cut the potatoes, they had weird shapes and it was obvious that I had never cooked before. I burned my food a lot of times but since I had to cook my own dinner, I started learning new recipes. You must have heard that 90% of students live with pasta, because it's the easiest and quickest meal. Now I really anjoy cooking and learning new recipes and I am a fan of international kitchen. I'm happy that I was forced by life to learn how to cook because now it's a relaxing procedure for me. I used to be very picky as well but when I stopped having a choice, I started eating a variety of food. It also depends on the way you cook everything, if you know what you like, you can make it in your own way.

I started at a very early age. My mother worked and we lived on the farm and had hired hands that needed to be fed. I was in 6th grade the first time I made gravy by myself and all the guys that were working couldn't believe that I could do it all by myself. I do like to cook when I have someone to cook for......but for myself I don't like messing up the kitchen.

I can cook lol, I like the prep but the cooking bit does my head in. Too much effort for the end result, no matter how good it will be

I learned to cook when I was a kid. I don't really rememeber when I started. I eat alot of stuff I got so sick of I won't eat anymore,like potatoes! Same with tuna! My mom made into a casserole! Yuck! I hated to cook later on when my mom was around! She drove me nuts! She wouldn't let me do certain things my way! Same with baking! I used to love to cook and even bake! I rarely do now except when I have to do at work. One reason is I would make alot bakery for people at one job. They loved it! It was great! Started doing it for people at my current job all I got was people complaining they hated chocolate, hated sweets all together and I was making everyone fat! So that was the end of that! If I had to learn this again,cooking, I would not from my mom! My sister would be better person to learn from!

I like to bake cake at the age of 12 when my auntie teach me how. I don't like cooking other menu than baking. I only started to cook when I get married at the age of 23 and it is my husband who taught me how to cook (hehehe) Well,I can say he is a good cook and I learned a lot from him...

I try. I was never one into cooking. But when I found myself with kids, and realized it was too expensive to be eating out all the time, and too unhealthy to be frying and grilling all the time, I had to learn. I still avoid it, but when push comes to shove, I pick up a laddle!

I was about 7-8 when I started making eggs and bacon, pancakes, easy stuff. I loved it, nobody taught me anything, I ust wanted to do it. At first I did it without my parents' knowledge when I was home alone. Then slowly they just let me do it and saw I was good at it. I learned from tv shows and from what I saw and read but I also liked and still like to experiment alot with ingredients. Of course I failed some foods by doing so but it's what I like to do. Maybe it just depends on each and every one and it doesn't have anything to do with parents teaching. I am now an architect student so maybe it comes from my artistic side. I mix ingredients like I mix shapes and colors. I even have a draw to arrange food nicely each time I serve food in my house and even when I eat alone. I think it's ok to not like to do it, even if you can do it and you're good at it you can just simply hate it :)

I am helping for my Mother to cook. Sometimes I am not helping to my mother. I am not always happy to cook with my mother. Because when I am standing in the kitchen I feel it is a hot place. I want to take cool air. I don't like to stand in the hot air..!!

I started cooking just about a year ago back and I'm still not that experienced of a cook. I am however really good at making grilled cheese sandwiches and if it has a recipe box, then I can surely master the dish according to the instructions. I do watch Food Network often to locate certain recipes that may be good to my family, but I usually require some assistance as I am no master chef yet. I want to be really good at culinary skills in a couple of years, so until then I will be learning new and adept ways to make meals for my loved ones!

I started cooking at a young age, must have been around 7 or 8. I got a cooking book for children as a gift and I must have loved the idea of being able to make your own food from scratch because I continued to cook from that moment on. It was only a hobby though I used to make dinner for my parents (with a bit of their help) some evenings. Once I ended up making soup that was much better than my mothers! Not everything I made worked out ok though, same as nowadays. I was however a very picky eater with the food my parents cooked though as an adult I've grown out of that. I can eat almost anything these days, even some things I hated as a child (such as brussel sprouts and cauliflower). I would definitely start at the same age if I had to do it all over again.

i started cooking when i was twelve years old ,very early.May be if the circumstances were different then i would not had learnt cooking till day .Because i was the only child in the home and when it is one and only eveyr one likes to keep the child more not to work in the kitchen or else anywhere.

I start cooking in the age of fifteen...My sister was there to cook before my starting...After her marriage,She went to the husband's house...And I compelled to work in kitchen...I will make snacks....More than others...My sister like my cooking..She will always appreciate me...I don't know if my cooking is good...But my sister will criticize me by comparing with my mom and sister.....In the starting of my cooking,I made a burger...That gave me a good certificate....Thank you

I started cooking when i was five years old.I will always remember that day. My mom is a fruit and vegetable vendor in the public market.After our class my brothers and i will go straight to the market to have lunch with our mom.We got to my mom early so my brother was ask to cook our meal,since my brother is but a lazy kid,he gave me all the ingredients and tell me what to do one by one. We had pork stew.They all love what i cooked.Starting then the duty that my brother has to do was thrown on me. If i were to do it again i still wont complain.I learned from it and its a knowledge i have with me till now.

I started cooking when I was at grade school, around 10 years old. My mom teaches me her signature recipes and when I was a teenager, I love experimenting flavors. I also love baking, which I started when I was 18. I don't regret learning how to cook and bake at these ages because it's one of my passion. Have a great day!

I started cooking when my childhood starts which means when i entered into my teen age. I love cooking much and more. I started to cook food by seeing my mother. She was the master of the cooking. I studied all the methods from her. She told me or she helped me to learn it at her best.